Meeting 8

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Meeting #8
Tuesday, April 13th
11:30 - 4:00
Central Office Upstairs Boardroom

1. Review/Revise Balanced Literacy Framework
  • Done! K&J will fix formatting and re-post
2. Anchor Book Decisions
  • 1st semester/2nd semester ideas
  • Other suggestions
  • K&J suggestion
  • 1st Semester - K-5 all schools study That Workshop Book
  • Part feel that the sessions should be optional, part feel that the sessions should be mandatory
3. Resources for the Bookrooms
4. Discuss structure of May Early Release Day
  • at Building level, or meet as a district
  • Talking Points (process, components, study group ideas, give-a-ways)
  • Meet at building level
  • what are you already successful at, what concerns/questions, go back to grade level meetings to talk about what this would look like
  • Talking points in a power point (Michele, Angie) Show the overall picture, break up in small groups in mixed grade levels, walk around stick post-it notes on sticky chart paper (what are you already doing in this type of model, what questions, what do you know you are going to need support with)
  • Separate letter from framework
5. Do we need a timeline of our work? See attachment
Lit Dev Group Timeline.xls

6. Recommendations to Principals
  • What time during the day do you see your staff participating in a study group?
  • 3-4pm, lunch for some buildings (optional)
  • What are the roadblocks you and your colleagues will run into? Is there enough time built into your day to fully implement a reading and writing workshop?
  • Do we stick to district meeting days and building meeting days?
  • Building in blocks of times in intermediate (strings, band, DARE)
  • Schedule in general for uninterrupted time
  • Departmentalization - no time to do language arts (for example, 3 classes a day and get each class for 1 hour)
  • Mandatory vs. Optional
  • Part feel that the sessions should be optional, part feel that the sessions should be mandatory
  • If book group is optional, do you still get the book?
  • If it is mandatory, departmentalized teachers are all language arts teachers
  • Are IS participating? Can Missy buy the book?
  • Credit vs. no credit
  • At this point, we recommend credit for That Workshop Book, the rest is up for discussion